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Posted on: July 18, 2019

Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances

by Leland Melvin

A memoir by the former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver traces his personal journey from the gridiron to the stars, examining the intersecting roles of community, perseverance, and grace that create opportunities for success.

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Sing, Unburied, Sing

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This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto

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Girl, Woman, Other

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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

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Stones from the River

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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism

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A Mind Unraveled

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An African American and Latinx History of the United States

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Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement

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The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America

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The Help

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Becoming

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Call Me American: A Memoir

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Americanah

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There There

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If a Tree Falls: A Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard

Posted on: October 18, 2019

So You Want to Talk about Race

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Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet’s Journey

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The Hate U Give

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The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

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Make Trouble

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When They Call You a Terrorist

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News of the World

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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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I am Malala

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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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The Book of Joy

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The Lovers: Afghanistan’s Romeo and Juliet

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This Is How It Always Is

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The Windfall

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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

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The Secret History of Wonder Woman

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